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Lindsey Lohan + Twitter
Lindsey Lohan + Twitter The Schtick: An awareness campaign to "Just say ‘No’ to drinking and tweeting." Lady Gaga + Dell The Schtick: Male, female. She doesn’t know. Channel player, not a channel player. We don’t know either-but you still love us, amirite? Russell Crowe + Apple The Schtick: Crowe teams up with Apple to…
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Motorola, Verizon Partner on Android Smartphone for Business Users
(Reuters) – Motorola Inc said on Tuesday Verizon Wireless would sell the Droid Pro, the mobile phone maker’s first device for business customers based on Google Inc’s popular Android operating system. Boasting push email with corporate-level security among the phone’s features, Motorola is aiming squarely at the market dominated by Research In Motion’s Blackberry, which…
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Skype Taps Cisco Exec as New CEO
Oct 4 (Reuters) – Internet telephony provider Skype said on Monday that Tony Bates, a senior executive of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) would become the top executive at Skype, which is planning an initial public offering. Skype, which is partly owned by eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), said that the company’s Chief Financial Officer Adrian Dillon would…
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Oracle’s Ellison Criticizes HP for Hiring Ex-SAP CEO
Oct 4 (Reuters) – Oracle Corp (NASDAQ: ORCL) chief executive Larry Ellison chided Hewlett-Packard’s board for hiring Leo Apotheker, who was at the helm of SAP AG when the German software company "confessed" to stealing Oracle’s intellectual property. Apotheker was picked to replace Mark Hurd as chief executive of HP after the latter was forced…
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Tablet Computer Successes Could Mean Tough Times for Hard Drive Makers
(Reuters) – Hard drive makers like Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp could experience slower growth as more and more consumers swap PCs for tablets, but they shouldn’t be counted out. With Apple’s iPad and tablets from a host of others — from Hewlett-Packard to Research in Motion — poised to take market share from…
